Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] see [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the elvers were running , each tide saw an army of hopefuls with their elver nets , scooping the waters from Sharpness to Gloucester and beyond . |
| 2 | This driver saw the warning , but still tried to have a go himself . |
| 3 | Do n't miss this opportunity to see the product of a European system that makes the best of emerging talent by staging work to a high standard . |
| 4 | If , meanwhile , another blackbird saw a species it has never seen before , it would rapidly associate this species with the mobbing calls made by its fellows . |
| 5 | This readiness to see a company that has been in state hands since 1922 pass into private , maybe foreign , ownership is rare . |
| 6 | Another adviser saw the purpose of the self-appraisal chiefly in terms of providing documentation and allowing schools to explain what they are doing : |
| 7 | Every week Diana and another girl saw an old lady in Sevenoaks . |
| 8 | The days that followed this discovery saw a steady increase in activity , with the town of St Pierre now being showered with light falls of ash and subjected to unpleasant wafts of sulphurous fumes . |
| 9 | This issue sees a welcome development in our activities . |
| 10 | This issue sees the introduction of six new CompuAdd PCs — ranging from one of the world 's most compact 286 notebook PCs , to a 486 which has just won Personal Computer World 's award for Best Power User System . |
| 11 | When Councillor and his Party showed the care and concern they have for our staff , when sixty members of our staff on that day attended a committee meeting of this Council to see the Labour leader open it and shut it without any debate whatsoever and walk out of the room . |
| 12 | I have called to this pub to see a friend , the tall attractive barmaid in black , the Irish one , my lover 's ex , by the way . |
| 13 | Another lap saw the Romanians pull past the French and the Trains pass Balabanov/Dobrotvorski of the USSR . |
| 14 | This period saw a levelling-out of both the absolute fail in rural population and the decline in the proportion of total population living in rural areas . |
| 15 | On the whole , however , this period saw a steady expansion in support for science , and the emergence of the modern system of scientific education in the English-speaking world . |
| 16 | If anything , this period saw a stepping-up in the pace of his activity . |
| 17 | This period saw the development of the ‘ test ’ phenomenon , which culminated in the test boom of the 1920 to 1930 period . |
| 18 | This period saw the beginning of attempts by conferences of representatives of states to draw up treaties or conventions on different aspects of the law of armed conflict , what is referred to as the jus in bello , that is , the rules of how war should be waged if it should break out . |
| 19 | This period saw the building of areas like the Triangle , Ropery Banks , Gardiner Street and North Trinity , which were important for housing action by the CDP . |
| 20 | This period saw the development of two significant trends : the perceived relevance of Marxism to Latin America increased , whilst the stature of the Communist parties markedly declined after reaching a peak in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War . |
| 21 | Thus this period saw the division of the global system into three ‘ worlds ’ : the first world of developed capitalist states ; the communist bloc , or second world ; and the less developed third-world states of the southern hemisphere . |
| 22 | Mukerji ( 1983 ) also challenges Weber 's concentration upon the link between Protestantism and capitalism , and argues rather that this period sees the rise of both asceticism and hedonism as more explicit and abstract attitudes to goods themselves . |
| 23 | After this Tindle saw a lot of Minton , either at Hamilton Terrace or Portobello Road where Minton did a drawing of the younger man in April 1952 , afterwards painting a half-length portrait of Tindle which now hangs in Pallant House , Chichester . |
| 24 | To Westminster Abbey , and there did see all the tombs very finely , having one with us alone , there being other company this day to see the tombs , it being Shrove Tuesday . |
| 25 | However there 's nice light this morning to see the marks of the pitsaw across that beam , the big two man pitsaw . |
| 26 | Who this morning saw the Baal Shem 's butterfly |
| 27 | This morning see the city the easy way and cruise the canals in a modern motor launch . |
| 28 | This theory sees the unemployed person as continuing the job search ( that is , remaining unemployed ) so long as wage offers are less than a certain ‘ reservation wage ’ . |
| 29 | This theory sees the organization exclusively in terms of the owners ( proprietors ) . |
| 30 | ( For a full consideration of this topic see the collection of essays in Collett ( 1977 ) ) . |